Most dramatic work...!!! in you opinion...

[oscar_21]

HI all people here...
Ive been hearin some dramatic stuff recently.. and the one i most love is called: "francesca da rimni" (tchaikovsky)... when i say dramatic, i mean, loud with tons of intensity,, like mars (hols-planets) or what about german requiem (brahms - 6 (baritone&chorus)).... but i defintly stick to francesca da rimini, because of the story behind it,, the betray (spell?) of the woman and how she and her lover are in the fifth circle of hell acording Dante, because they someted the reason into flesh and passion and how the wind section represents the strong wind in hell, and in the middle section the solo clarinet speaks (actually that would be francesca), and it is telling dante how they got there,, then they`re again into the wind and in the finale the hell absorbs and swallows francesca and paolo.... its just i love it... i love the work... very loud, intese and dramatic, represent the hell and the fire and the strong wind... etc... well,,

whats yours!??

Oscar.!!

[jamriding]

Don't know Francesca da Rimini ("Shame" I can hear you say) but I used to play Liszt's "Dante" sonata on the piano years ago. That was very similar, from what you say.

It made great use of the diminished fifth ("diabolus in musica") and you certainly knew that you had played it when you arrived at the final 2 pages (total bedlam!).

Even thinking about it brings on the vapours...

[weslldeckers]

...well my favorite dramatic pieces are actually the main titoles of the following films:

--The Chariman
--The Sand Pebbles (also The Overture of it)
--Tora! Tora! Tora!

all form the late Jerry Goldsmith.
In a very short time span, they delve deep into my soul and keep resonating long after they've finsihed. Even The Chairman with it's detoriated sound quality moves me beyond anything else!

[stephank]

Hi you all.

I just listend to Wolfgang Rihms "Hamlet Maschine". A very intellectual contemporary opera which touched me so deeply. Very often the contemporary stuff feels a bit emotionaly cold for me but not this one.

One question: Is Wofgang Rihm international known, or is he just big in germany?


Stephan Kanyar

[Ben Johnson]

I'm a big fan of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto no. 2.

[dpcon]

Mahler's 6th without a doubt and also his 9th.

Beethoven's symphonies are dramatic in a very noble way.

[hermitage59]

I've read this and tried to think of only one.

Can't do it.

Too many.

Beethoven (3,6,9), Wagner (Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Flying Dutchman, Valkeries), Saint-Saens (Organ Symphony), Mahler (6),
Shostakovich (7,11), Rachmaninoff (2,3 Piano, The cliff), Rimksy-Korsakov (Sheherazade), Tchaikovsky (R&J, The Tempest, 6th, 1812 with artillery and choir) Liszt (Dante), Verdi, (Requiem), Holst (Planets), Dvorak (Piano in Aminor), Prokofiev (R&J), Richard Strauss (Ein Heideleiben), the list goes on and on.........
And of course, it depends how i'm feeling..........

Regards,

Alex.
[:P]

[MarkOfTheStoat]

Four ballets... all very dramatic....

Stavinsky - Rite of Spring (kind of obvious one perhaps), Les Noces
Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus (also used as opening music to 'The Onedin Line')

Finally my favourite:

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - there just isn't anything more dramatic than seeing this ballet (with a good cast and a good orchestra/conductor!)

Has anyone attempted a ny Prokofiev with VSL?

[Tomkovsky]

My nominations:
The 4th Symphony by Shostakovich. Especially that insane passage about 15 minutes into the 1st movement. I would like to try a VSL mock-up one day but i'm about 10 Gigastudio PCs short at the moment.

and as a pianist (of sorts) some of Messiaen's music - 'regard de l'esprit de joie', 'par lui tout a ete fait' from the 'Vingt Regards'